Poetry as a Means of Revolt Against the Tribe: The Experience of Poet Suhaym as a Model

AWEJ for translation & Literacy Studies Volume, 1 Number 3, August 2017

14 Pages Posted: 14 Sep 2017

See all articles by Abdul Khaliq Esa

Abdul Khaliq Esa

An-Najah National University

Oqab Mahmoud Jabali

An-Najah National University

Kamel Yaseen

Ministry of Education and Higher Education Ramallah, Palestine

Date Written: September 3, 2017

Abstract

This study traces and identifies the psychological crisis of the veteran, old hand poet, Suhaym, the slave of Bani Al-Hashaas as exposed through his poems. This personality disorder results basically from the poet's inability to socialize and merge into his local society which denies him both his masculinity and recognition as a poet. The study also deals with the repercussions of the poet's psychosis which reduces him to sadism, narcissism, and perversion. As a result, the poet is resolved to get revenge on the tribe through tarnishing the chastity of its women and depicting sexual savagery towards them in his poems. The study results find that these poems are nothing but mere delusions and Suhaym has to pay the price eventually by being burned to death.

Keywords: flirting-poetry, perversion, psychosis, revolt, Suhaym, tribe

Suggested Citation

Esa, Abdul Khaliq and Mahmoud Jabali, Oqab and Yaseen, Kamel, Poetry as a Means of Revolt Against the Tribe: The Experience of Poet Suhaym as a Model (September 3, 2017). AWEJ for translation & Literacy Studies Volume, 1 Number 3, August 2017 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3031485 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3031485

Abdul Khaliq Esa (Contact Author)

An-Najah National University ( email )

Nablus
Palestine
Nablus, PA 00972
Palestine

Oqab Mahmoud Jabali

An-Najah National University ( email )

Nablus
Palestine
Nablus, PA 00972
Palestine

Kamel Yaseen

Ministry of Education and Higher Education Ramallah, Palestine ( email )

Palestine

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